All the way along the road between villages and towns near the riverbank, along the river, the main reason is for safety. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this place of Xin'an, the east is basically Hakka, and these villages and towns along the river are all Cantonese people (Guangdong locals).

On the other side of the Pearl River, Xinhui and other places in Xinhui, Xinning and other places have been fighting for several years, the Hakka people and the Cantonese people killed fiercely, that kind of tragedy, especially than the war, because the two sides are not fighting for victory, but for the land, for the right to survive and fight, this weapon fight in history will be carried out for a long time, killing and wounding millions of people, resulting in the Hakka people, who account for one-fifth of the population of Guangdong, eighty percent of the population disappeared.

Xin'an is also a big Hakka county, and the Hakka people account for about half, although the fighting over there has not yet affected here, but it is already very tense, and there is no private collusion, and no one knows if there will be a fight, so the villages in this area have formed township warriors and organized public bureaus. Including Shajing Xiangyong, in fact, it was not entirely formed to fight against foreigners, and the fear of fighting with the Hakka people was also a very important reason.

In history, because of the struggle for land and water, there has been a lot of fighting, all here has long had the tradition of arranging the village bravery, the Hakka people are quite fierce, they are all mountain people, the poorest people, in history the weapons fight to the end, when the Qing army and the Cantonese people jointly strangled the Hakka people, more than a dozen, dozens of Hakka people dared to charge the army, that kind of bravery makes people chill in the bones.

It is precisely because of the fierce opponent that the Xin'an people, who have been fighting against the Hakka people all the year round, also seem quite fierce.

It's just that there is a risk in this area along the river, that is, I don't know if I will bump into foreigners.

Hou Jin was very skeptical of this: "My lord, do you say that foreigners will really send troops to dig manholes?" ”

Zhu Jinglun shook his head: "Let me ask you, if you are a strong man, but every day there is a little hooligan who punches you in the back or kicks you and runs away, do you hate him?" ”

Hou Jin said: "Of course I hate! ”

Zhu Jinglun said again: "Then what would you do if you suddenly knew about the hooligan's home?" ”

Hou Jin said: "I, Tamar, must have rushed to his house and burned his house!" ”

Zhu Jinglun shrugged: "Now the foreigner is the big man, and he now knows where the hooligan's house is." ”

The foreigners who had been tossed and harassed for more than ten days had long been furious, but they had never been able to catch the Chinese soldiers who had sneaked attack, so Zhu Jinglun guessed that once they knew that the soldiers who attacked them were hiding in the manhole, they would definitely send troops as soon as possible, so as not to let the other party run away, or have precautions.

Hou Jin is not a stupid person, he understood when he heard it, and he was even more sure than Zhu Jinglun that the foreigners must have come to the door in a hurry, but he pounced, and when he turned around, he found that their nest had been wiped out.

In fact, Zhu Jinglun was not so optimistic, because if the British army calmed down, planned slowly, and acted step by step, all this would be in vain. He is actually a gamble, if the bet is right, the British army is impatient to move, and he suddenly leads troops to appear outside Xin'an City at this time, he can take advantage of the weakness, if the other party does not act, then there is no loss, at most as a training night march.

"Keep up, keep up. If you have bad eyes, pull on the belt in front of you! ”

Zhu Jinglun stood on the side of the road, this is a small road, the road between Fuyong and Xixiang, Fuyong and Xixiang are the same as manholes, they are the traffic points of the surrounding villages, and over time they have formed a bazaar, the streets, and some merchants have opened shops to do business, such a small town, Xin'an people call it a market, so the manhole is also called a manhole market. At this time, Shenzhen was a bazaar across the Shenzhen River from the Kowloon Peninsula, and later developed into a super metropolis.

Because the country road is connected to the surrounding villages, it is not a straight line, but 30,000 taels around, fortunately, this road is not the first time everyone has walked, a few days ago when they attacked Xin'an, they often sneak attack during the day and go back overnight, and the night road has gone a few times, plus there is a guide to lead the way with a manhole, but there is no need to worry.

It's just that the brigade marched, and for fear that someone would be separated, the five people held a torch high, but the villagers in the passing villages were scared enough, and they thought that they were making bandits, and after passing through several villages, they saw the villagers holding hoes and sickles at the entrance of the village, which was much faster than the Qing army, and they were all trained in regular fighting.

Zhu Jinglun thought that he would wait for the future to gain a foothold in Xin'an, it would be a good choice to recruit troops and buy horses in this area, Qi Jiguang was shocked when he saw the Dongyang people's armed fight, and finally recruited troops in that area, and the Tuke armed fighting in the late Qing Dynasty was the largest, bloodiest, and most casualty weapon fighting in the entire Chinese history, if these soldiers were trained, they were definitely not worse than the Qi family's army.

Two thousand people walked on the country road, lined up along the path with a long snake, plus hundreds of torches, looking at a long dragon from afar, the formation was indeed a bit big, but Zhu Jinglun had no choice, because many soldiers had poor eyesight because of nutritional problems, and there were night blindness of varying severity, Zhu Jinglun provided a good diet, and he didn't dare to say that he could eat meat, and there was no shortage of vegetables, so there were not many soldiers who couldn't see the road at all, but there were still some who couldn't see the road clearly in the night, so he didn't dare to be careless. In addition, if you don't light a torch, you may be able to hide it, but you can't hide it from the dogs in the village, if the villagers rush out in the dark, the black light is more likely to cause misunderstanding.

So although it scared the villagers now, it was relatively safe, and these days Zhu Jinglun's harassment war was also from here and between villages, and he didn't take a few photos, and when he met the explanation, the villagers were let go. No one was interested in going to war with a team of 2,000 men. There were even a few bold people who asked if they were going to fight the county seat again, and they also wanted to join in the fun, asking if they could really get a reward for killing foreigners, and the villagers in this area knew about Chen Gui's bounty.

I didn't dare to take these people, so I sent them away casually, and they just asked, but they didn't insist.

As the day dawned, the team rested by a small river.

The creek bends at its feet, blocked by the high ground at its feet, where it bends and forms six or seven pools of water, and the village in front of you is very large, straddling both sides of the river.

"Where is this?"

Zhu Jinglun asked.

"This is called Jia'an Village, and after crossing the river, you can reach Xin'an City in four or five miles."

The guide Chen Ada replied.

Zhu Jinglun nodded: "Hmm." Mr. Fang, let everyone take a break. Don't light a fire, don't disturb the villagers after dawn, and speak well if anyone asks. It's easy for us to misunderstand what we do today. ”

Fang Shan nodded, shaking the clothes on his body, very uncomfortable, because he was wearing a red military uniform of a lobster soldier.

"Hou Jin, black dog, you two come with me."

Then Zhu Jinglun ordered again.

The two of them answered and ran over.

"Changed a pair, are you afraid that foreigners won't recognize you?"

The two of them also wore military uniforms, the military uniforms of the Indian soldiers, there was no way to really not have a full set of British military uniforms, so they could only take half of the Indian soldiers' military uniforms to make up the number, when they saw these captured military uniforms in the barracks warehouse, they always felt that they would be useful, and they didn't want to come in handy at this time, wearing the military uniforms of the British, and going to attack the city guarded by the British, maybe it would be effective, at least they could pretend that the British army was touching the city wall in the light.

When the few people arrived outside Xin'an City, it was already completely dawn.

I can't care about it, I can only lie in a rice field more than a mile outside the city, it is already the end of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it will be harvested next month, the rice ears are full, and I can already see a good year, but now it provides Zhu Jinglun and them with excellent cover.

Opened the rice seedlings and carefully observed the city with a telescope.

Hou Jin also had a telescope in his hand, all of which were captured from the British army, and the quality was quite good, and he could see more clearly than the monocular clairvoyance made by the Qing army itself. But there are only two, the black dog can't help it, Hou Jin just doesn't show him, and the black dog doesn't dare to come to grab Zhu Jinglun's hand, so he can only do it in a hurry.

"It's weird!"

After looking at it for a long time, the city gate was not opened, but some patrolling soldiers had already appeared on the city wall.

"Why are they all these traitors!"

Hou Jin also found out.

A group of soldiers with hats appeared on the city wall, which was the standard dress of the Chinese coolies in the British army, but there was no foreigner.

"I didn't see a coolie the last time I came, have you noticed anything in this time?"

Zhu Jinglun asked.

Hou Jin and Heitou both shook their heads: "I haven't seen it, the people we saw yesterday were all foreigners." ”

Zhu Jinglun frowned, which showed that the British had increased their troops in Xin'an City, and at least a group of coolies had been transferred over. This caught Zhu Jinglun a little off guard, thinking that the British would be in a hurry to retaliate and would transfer the defensive forces of Xin'an City, not wanting the other party to increase their troops.

Could it be that you guessed that you were going to sneak attack?

It's discreet!

Zhu Jing sighed, lamenting in his heart that this sneak attack was going to fail.

"There's a boat!"

Hou Jin suddenly shouted.

"Be quiet."

The black dog was startled.

Hou Jin snorted: "I'm afraid of a bird, what about this mile, the devil is a dog's ears, he can hear it?" ”

Zhu Jinglun had already turned his telescope to look in the direction of the port, which was also one mile away from the county seat, and it was exactly a triangle with the rice fields, more than a mile apart, and he could see it clearly.

I saw that the British warships had come to the wharf, and docked at the wharf, there were still some big ships in the river, because they were too big to enter the port, temporarily moored on the river, the chimney of the steam engine was still emitting white smoke, obviously did not turn off the fire, did not go out of the fire is not going to moor, what is this for?

Just as he was puzzled, the blackhead shouted again.

"Look, look, the gates are open."

He could see with the naked eye a target the size of a city gate.

I saw a group of British troops rushing out of the city gate.

"It's not going to be the discovery of us, is it?"

The black dog was startled, he had been chased by the British in the past few days, but they were hiding in Jia'an Village, surrounded by many trees, and four or five miles away, it was impossible to see it.

"Don't make a noise, I'm going to the docks."

Zhu Jinglun scolded and observed carefully.

"Hou Jin, count carefully!"

Zhu Jinglun said again, and at the same time he also counted.

“100…… 200…… 800！ ”

"800!"

Hou Jin also finished counting, and both of them counted 800, so they can't be wrong.

Zhu Jinglun detected that the British army only had 800 people in Xin'an last time, which can be regarded as an empty city, of course, if you don't count those coolies.

After watching as 800 British soldiers boarded the ships on the dock and left the dock, the gate of Xin'an was closed again. Obviously, Xin'an City was harassed and scared, and it didn't open the city gate in broad daylight.

"Count their ships!"

Zhu Jinglun and Hou Jin began to count again, when the last warship crossed the river outside Xin'an City, the two of them checked, there were a total of 67 warships, this is a huge fleet, the British army in Hong Kong has a total of less than 100 warships, and basically all that can be dispatched have been dispatched.

What the hell is going on, there are more coolies in the city, but the British have withdrawn. And a large fleet was transferred from Hong Kong.

Zhu Jinglun pondered for a moment.

"Oops!"

I couldn't help but sigh.

"What's wrong?"

Hou Jin was puzzled.

Zhu Jinglun said: "The British sent so many ships, it is impossible to only pull the British troops here in Xin'an, I am afraid that they even sent the army from Hong Kong." It's an empty nest. There are more than 2,000 people, if not more. Can Chen Zhiting's side withstand it? ”

"What then, why don't we go back?"

Black Dog asked.

Hou Jin glanced at him: "Go back?" Can you outrun a foreigner's steamer? ”

Zhu Jinglun made up his mind and said: "Hong Kong has sent troops, although the situation is very bad, it is not an opportunity. The British troops in Hong Kong and Xin'an were dispatched, and the foreigners were determined to take the manholes. There will not be many troops in Xin'an City, there may only be some coolies, at most a small number of foreign soldiers. ”

Zhu Jinglun said this, Heigou and Hou Jin both felt that it was very reasonable, and couldn't help but be a little excited, as for Chen Zhiting's side, they had long forgotten, they knew that they were here to fight Xin'an, whether Chen Zhiting could defend their village and close their own, that is, the people of Shajing were dead, and it was a great achievement to take Xin'an City here, and unconsciously, even characters like Hei Dog, Diao Min, whose mentality had been in the past, had changed to the role of officers and soldiers.

"Hehe, how can a group of coolies stop the masters?"

Especially the black dog, he is a battalion officer, with four sentry posts under his command, nearly 500 people, but he forgot, a few months ago, he was just a coolie recruited by foreigners, at this time, he couldn't see that the coolie was coming, people really like to despise themselves, the more similar to themselves, the more they despise.

"Don't be careless!"

Zhu Jinglun said this, but in fact, he thought so in his heart.

Because the bunkers guarded by the puppet army are easier to fight, this is a matter of common sense.

Even, Zhu Jinglun believes that it is possible that Xin'an can be won without a real battle.